Month: April 2022
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Review: Landscapers, a crime story is in there somewhere
Landscapers takes a surreal look at a true crime and love story. It stretches a simple crime drama out into four episodes by adding fantasy, flashbacks, police work, and oddball re-enactments of the storytelling to the mix.
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Review: The Outlaws, British dramedy
The Outlaws, season 1, is about a group of vividly drawn characters who end up doing community service together for 100 hours instead of going to jail. I don’t know whether to call it high stakes drama or comedy, hence the dramedy label. Season 2 has already been approved.
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Review: Flashback, French comedy gets feminist
Flashback is a wild French comedy starring, written by, and directed by Caroline Vigneaux. It’s sci-fi, or perhaps a hangover dream, about a lawyer who travels back in time to meet several French feminists.